Laura Moriarty has published eleven books of poetry, a short novel, Cunning(Sputyen Duyvil 2000), and a novel of science fiction, Ultravioleta (Atelos 2006). She was a founding member of Kelsey Street Press. She has taught at Mills College, Naropa University and Otis Art Institute. Her work in nonprofit literary organizations includes her current position as the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution, and her previous position as the Archives Director for the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University from 1986-1997. She received a Poetry Center Book Award in 1984 for Persia (Chance Additions). She has also been awarded a Gerbode Foundation grant, a residency at the Foundation Royaumont in France and a New Langton Arts Award in Literature.